Reel Customers In With Rezdy

Elissa Allen is the Marketing Director of King Fisher Fleet, who offers cruises and fishing charters to sightseers and fishermen. Sightseers get a chance to observe dolphins and other wildlife in their natural environment, while fishermen wrestle away their catch from fishable waters with over a hundred species of saltwater fish.

The family-owned business is an established one, with Elissa being part of the 3rd generation in running King Fisher Fleet. However, she felt that she was struggling to oversee the business with the systems they had in place.

“Our biggest challenge was being able to know our availability and trip counts on the go. We had to call the office and have our staff total up the trip count so we could make a decision on staff, boats and trips.”

“Our biggest challenge was being able to know our availability and trip counts on the go.”

Elissa knew that in order to take her business to the next level, she had to automate this process using online booking software. She went through the steps to implement a system, but found that the one she chose wasn’t flexible enough to suit her needs.

“For a year we used an electronic booking service, but it just didn’t meet our needs. There was no flexibility as far as being able to customize trips per day, there was no easy way of handling office bookings versus online bookings, and the website integration was poor.”

Elissa also felt that it was far too difficult to use the system, administratively.

“The backend was not intuitive, so it wasn’t user-friendly. You would have to try to make it work when it wasn’t really designed to work that way, and they had terrible customer service.”

She knew that she had to find a better tool to manage her bookings in order to grow the family business.

“It would be hard to put a dollar amount on how much time we spent trying to work around the old reservation system. It cost us substantially in administration and frustration.”

“It would be hard to put a dollar amount on how much time we spent trying to work around the old reservation system.”

Elissa began her search for a booking software more geared towards the needs of her unique company’s needs, which needed to accommodate sightseeing cruise and fishing charter bookings.

“I spent a lot of time comparing different vendors, including Rezdy. In my research, I spoke to one of Rezdy’s customers, who had nothing but great things to say.”

With encouragement from a current customer, Elissa took a free trial of Rezdy, and wasn’t disappointed by the level of service she received.

“Rezdy’s customer service representatives were very willing to answer my questions during my trial. They were the only company who took the time to check in with me and find workarounds for me even before I was a paying customer.”

“They were the only company who took the time to check in with me and find workarounds for me even before I was a paying customer.”

Convinced that it was the perfect match, Elissa began implementing Rezdy into her business. She found that this was much easier to do than with her previous system.

“It was very simple to design my cruises and populate my sessions. That whole process took me a couple of hours.”

Elissa was glad that her booking staff felt the same way when they were trained on how to use Rezdy’s software.

“The training of my booking staff was very minimal – it took an hour at most for each of them. As a trainer, it was music to my ears when they all had the same response – that it was really easy, instead of having a long list of questions. It’s that response that makes me feel like I made the right decision, because I’m not the only one that likes the system.”

With Rezdy, King Fisher Fleet’s customers have a professional and easy way to book themselves in directly from the website.

“The online sales and customer feedback are a testament to how seamlessly Rezdy works with our website. We even see customers come back and add extra tickets to their itinerary.”

“The online sales and customer feedback are a testament to how seamlessly Rezdy works with our website.”

Rezdy also gives King Fisher Fleet’s staff the ability to manage the business from anywhere, at any time.

“Now that we’re on Rezdy, we can keep an eye on our bookings no matter where we are. We could be out of town, at home, on our cellphone in line at the store, or sitting in at a lunch meeting, and be well aware of where we stand.”

Elissa also loves that Rezdy is so easy to update, making the administrative work much easier.

“Rezdy allows us to make changes on the fly, so we can focus on other parts of the business. It takes 30 seconds to log in, add a trip, and populate it on the calendar. ”

“Rezdy allows us to make changes on the fly, so we can focus on other parts of the business.”

“As the administrator of our account, I love how easy it is to populate the next month of cruises in the calendar. We release several months in advance all year round so once we get our cruises planned, it takes me 10 minutes to load the calendar and get it live for the next month. It’s wonderful because we can add cruises very, very easily.”

King Fisher Fleet have seen a sharp increase in online bookings after putting Rezdy in place.

“Immediately after implementing Rezdy, we saw a drastic increase in our online sales, even though this is our slowest time of the year. In fact, our online bookings grew from 5% to 15% last month – that’s huge for us in the off season. I can’t wait to see what it will be like in the busy season!”

“Immediately after implementing Rezdy, we saw a drastic increase in our online sales… our online bookings grew from 5% to 15% last month – that’s huge for us in the off season.”

Elissa is so happy with Rezdy, that she would gladly recommend that other sightseeing cruise and fishing charter companies try it out.

“The single biggest reason I would recommend Rezdy is the ease of access. Administratively, it’s everything you want it to be. Do the trial, ask as many questions as you can, and don’t hesitate to reach out to other businesses that are using Rezdy to get their feedback, because you won’t be disappointed.”

She has also found working with the team at Rezdy to be a positive experience.

“Rezdy’s team always answer fast and professionally. They don’t just look up an answer in a book, but they look into the thought process behind your question and try to sort out an easy answer. And they don’t forget about you – they follow up to know you’re satisfied.

“The single biggest reason I would recommend Rezdy is the ease of access. Administratively, it’s everything you want it to be.”